The Village

With a film being made about his life, Bert takes us back to the summer of 1914.

It is January 1915 and the Middleton farm has fallen on very hard times.

As call-up papers are delivered throughout the village, soldiers requisition the family's horse.

Bert decides that winning the annual wheelbarrow race is a matter of life and death.

Joe's brief leave from the front has come to an end. He has tried hard to conceal his shell shock from the family, but Grace knows that something is badly wrong.

It is 1920; the war is over, and the village tries to come to terms with its loss. The date of the unveiling of the war memorial draws close and, as the inhabitants debate how best to honour their dead, divisions open up at the heart of the community.